Description Albert Choi 2013-12-18 16:57:57 EST

I have a problem using the IWorkbenchPage::findViewReference(...) method with view ID and secondary ID parameters.

I am calling 
                
IViewReference viewRef = 
  activePage.findViewReference("org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsoleView", "mySecondaryID");

and it seems to always return null, even if the console view is open.

Internally, I see that findViewReference(...) loops through getViewReferences() and tries to match the IDs.  To debug, I added the following logging to my code:

IViewReference[] viewRefs = activePage.getViewReferences();
                
for (IViewReference viewReference : viewRefs) {
    logger.trace("view ref ID - " + viewReference.getId());
    logger.trace("view ref secondary ID - " + viewReference.getSecondaryId());
}

The console view is logged as:

view ref ID - org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsoleView:mySecondaryID
view ref secondary ID - mySecondaryID

The main ID is appended with the secondary ID, and thus never gets matched in findViewReference().

I ran the same test with an Indigo environment, and the logging gives:

view ref ID - org.eclipse.ui.console.ConsoleView
view ref secondary ID - mySecondaryID

And it does return the view reference from findViewReference()

Thanks